this is a great computer it changed how we
think about mobility and probably saved the spines of an entire generation of
latte sipping college kids so why is it then that apple is so
determined to make it the worst product in their lineup
we weren't even sure that there would be an apple event this spring due to the
global silicon shortage but such mortal follies are beneath apple apparently and
leading up to the event there were tantalizing rumors of new ipads with
mini led backlights air tags trackers
redesigned imacs with ipad-like displays and apple silicon inside a new apple
pencil for some reason and more as for what we
got it was most of the above and i have got some thoughts
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subscribe to it for a more apple-centric experience but that doesn't mean that i
don't have my own opinions now i said most of the predictions ahead of the
event were true but there were still some unexpected moments like oh i don't
know a Thunderbolt equipped ipad
both sizes of the new ipad pro come equipped with apple's m1 soc meaning
they're not only much more powerful than previous gen a13z models they are now
able to use thunder freaking bolt for things like fast direct attached storage
full resolution 6k output to the pro display xdr numerous connected
peripherals and presumably more
so Thunderbolt docs then will suddenly be an extremely compelling add-on for
anyone whose workflow incorporates an ipad and
that's about to be a lot more people now that the
liquid retina display xdr is a thing
unnecessarily long branding aside apple is boasting a thousand nits full screen
brightness and 1600 nits peak in HDR mode on this thing
with a million to one contrast ratio thanks to the new mini led backlight
that provides 2500 local dimming zones
what that means is that whatever the results of the uk advertising
authority's investigation into apple's pro-display xdr performance claims
this screen matches that one according to apple's own internal metrics which
frankly is good enough for me to be pretty darn stoked
another side bonus is that higher sdr content brightness will come in handy if
you're in a brightly lit coffee shop the bottom line then is that if apple is to
be believed here the new ipad pro is basically a little tiny pro display xdr
and then a top model m1 macbook air clipped to the back of it in a slim
package and that is a huge deal it even comes with the same 8 or 16 gigs of RAM
depending on your storage option and there's a new 2 terabyte storage tier
just like on the m1 max i just wish it didn't cost eleven hundred dollars extra
price aside though these changes make this new ipad more of a computer than an
ipad has ever been and quite frankly if it performs anywhere near what apple
claims it will it may be outright preferable to the venerable macbook air
depending on your use case especially considering that you get more computer
for the starting price of just 7.99 on the 11 inch model i mean it doesn't run
macOS but with the way the lines between ipads and macbooks have already
blurred it's probably a matter of time before most of your favorite apps are
cross-compatible i cannot wait to get my
hands on one of these just like you should get your hands on a desk pad
before they're LTT Store.gone now ipads of course weren't the only
major announcement the new 24-inch imac is
well okay when you take an ipad and give it the performance and i o of an
ultrabook i'm impressed when you take a desktop and you do the same thing it's
just it's a little less wow i mean it looks awesome the chunky bezels of
yesteryear are basically gone which means that while it's got roughly the
same frame size as a 21 and a half inch imac you're getting a 23 and a half inch
retina display with the same pixel density at four and a half k res now the
chin bar did manage to stick around but overall thickness of the device is
ridiculously thin and the ipad-like
sharp but rounded industrial design is
so refreshing to see after basically no fundamental changes since 2007
the fact that it comes in so many colors rather than just silver is also probably
going to make it a hit among college students and families and the newly
designed magsafe like power connector gives it a very cohesive look on the
desk albeit that comes at the cost of having
an external power brick for the first time on a desktop mac
one benefit of this approach is that the brick can be equipped with gigabit
Ethernet in it for a cleaner look on your desk although the drawback of
course is that the base model imac actually does not come with a wired
Ethernet connection the one saving grace i can think of of
this innovation is that if you clue in at
some point that wi-fi just cannot achieve the speed and more importantly
the reliability of a copper cable you can either hang a dongle off of your
sexy machine or just upgrade your power adapter later on down the line
if you're getting chromecast ultra flashbacks you're not alone
bringing us to another sourcebot specs
as a result of the limited i o thanks to the unmodified m1 soc that apple is
using for the new 24 inch imacs the lower end model the one with no Ethernet
out of the box has just two Thunderbolt slash usb 4 ports and a headphone jack
that's it then for 200 more the up model
version gets an extra GPU core that gigabit Ethernet power adapter and two
extra usb 3 ports both of them come with wi-fi 6 and
bluetooth 5 though and to be fair this is marketed as a basic
family or dorm computer so chances are
good that many potential buyers may have no desire to use Ethernet although the
chances are also good that they're going to gripe to geek squad about crappy
performance and the solution to it will be
plugging in a cable if i was being realistic though this is all i could
have expected and for someone considering an imac 21 and a half inch
certainly this is a huge step up i just
hoped that by the time desktop apple silicon machines arrived the m1's i o
limitations would have been in the rear view mirror one welcome arrival from the
m1 though is the new webcam or more specifically the mobile image processing
routines that for years have been better than any desktop so we're expecting more
natural lighting and color balance like we saw with the 720p facetime cameras on
the m1 macbooks except better because this is now a 1080p webcam and also
they've paired it with what apple calls the best microphone ever on a mac so it
should be exceptional for teleconferencing we'll have to see of course but apple has a pretty good track
record here on their m1 devices another area apple has a good track
record is sound and it's here that we discover the reason that the chin bar
managed to stick around a total of six
drivers embedded in the chin claimed to deliver room-filling audio in any space
and while that's obviously horseshit it's probably going to sound pretty darn
good if recent macbooks are any indication this this is just this is one
of those why marketing moments from apple like unless
they've managed to bend time and space itself the idea that spatial audio can
be done with what are effectively down firing stereo speakers is
a little out that like all they had to say was it sounds really great from four
feet away which is probably where you're gonna be sitting and we wouldn't have
had to call them on such an insultingly obviously false statement anyway we're
definitely gonna test it for ourselves so get subscribed so you don't miss our
full review when we get our hands on one to round things out literally the imacs
come with a redesigned color matched keyboard with a dedicated emoji key and
a refreshed magic mouse to go with it refreshed magic mouse you say Linus did
they finally move the brain dead bottom charging port that we've been mocking
for years no no apple actually spent r d money
adding color to the magic mouse and then didn't put in the extra effort to retool
the chassis and redesign the pcb to put a sensible charging port that lets you
use the mouse while you're charging it and how dare you question their choices
by the way the included tenkeyless keyboard looks all right however and the
higher tier versions of the imac get a version of the keyboard that comes with
touch id for those of you wanting a full size layout apple does have it available
and both versions also have the emoji key honestly though touch id is
so convenient on the macbook that for me that would be a tipping point to just
pay the extra 200 because of course you get all those other benefits and apple
already charges a hundred dollars for a new keyboard as it is so if you ever
wanted to add touch id you're half of the way there even without properly
reviewing these things i'm gonna come out and say don't buy the base model if you're
looking to buy a new imac if you are looking to buy a new imac though there's
a chance that you're in the market for an apple tv as well and there's a new 4k
model coming with support for 4k 60 HDR video and what apple's calling enhanced
airplay that allows an HDR capable i device to display HDR content on the tv
there's a new remote that has a click wheel like scrubbing feature and a
dedicated siri button on the right side but the real magic comes from what apple
is calling color balance using an iphone's camera the apple tv
can actually adjust its output to basically calibrate your tv for you
that is so cool as long as the content
is available on the apple tv because it doesn't touch the actual tv settings why
this isn't a more common feature on i don't know say
samsung tvs and samsung phones i will never know and i mean for that matter
what about lg tvs and lg for
oh too soon anywho it probably won't be as
accurate as calibrating with a colorimeter but the reality of it is
most people won't notice the difference and just want their content to look good
enough and this should probably do the trick following something resembling a
fever dream apple also announced another new product air tags what are they
they're tiles they hook directly into apple's find my system and use the u1
ultra wideband directional sensors to pinpoint the exact direction and
distance away from your tiles excuse me sorry air tanks
apparently they have unwanted tag detection so you can't use it to track
people and they've got a range of rather expensive leather holders
at 30 a pop it's a little cheaper than a tile and apple offers free engraving for
them so good job i guess
actually yeah good job apple claims a year of battery life on a standard user
replaceable cr2032 battery i mean
this should be the bare minimum for a product like this but hey
apple is not manufacturing e-waste for once we got to give them credit where
it's due right come on
all right thank you on that subject i'm not sure if apple is doing the world a
solid with the whole merge and build credit together apple card family thing
but if you're getting one of those anyway it's not a bad perk i suppose you
can use it to pay for the new podcast subscription that they're rolling out that works sort of like early access or
premium service to support creators that you enjoy kind of like patreon or
say Floatplane i don't know what their revenue split is though so again it's hard to say if
that's a hooray or not really a hooray um
see what else did they announce oh right uh the iphone 12. um now it comes in
purple neat that damp squib of an announcement was
actually the first product of the event so um
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